Cohen and Levesque: intention is choice with commitment

What changed

Defined persistent intention using a modal structure of choice, commitment, belief and action.

Scientific scope

The record is the exact two-author 1990 Artificial Intelligence paper. Its conclusions follow within the paper's modal and action-theoretic framework; it is not an empirical cognitive model and does not absorb later BDI architectures or all multi-agent intention theories.

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The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is the exact two-author 1990 Artificial Intelligence paper. Its conclusions follow within the paper's modal and action-theoretic framework; it is not an empirical cognitive model and does not absorb later BDI architectures or all multi-agent intention theories.

Contributors

• Philip R. Cohen · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.
• Hector J. Levesque · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

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